In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Untitled #5250
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and ...
Canvas, Oil
$37,000
#5091
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on layered canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Canvas, Wax, Oil
WOP 2 - 00654
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.75 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint...
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Price Upon Request
Turtle Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Beautiful drawing by enigmatic artist Len Poteshman
Charcoal, Oil
$539
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in D 0.79 in
Beach Palms La Cala with Oil Paint on Canvas, Painting Mid century
Located in Deddington, GB
Beach Palms La Cala By Eleanor Woolley [April 2023] Palm Trees La Cala is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. The striking Palm Trees on La Cala beach in La Cala de Mijas were ...
Canvas, Oil
$204
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 0.79 in
St Ives Shadows, Cornwall, Original painting, Oil on canvas, Coastal art, Beach
Located in Deddington, GB
St Ives Shadows is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. Painted in the Artist's Gloucestershire Studio, St Ives Shadows is inspired by a trip to Cornwall last Summer. Photographs...
Oil, Canvas
$1,501
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
Jonathan Speed, Journey's End, Original Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Journey’s End [2021] Original Landscapes and seascapes Oil paint on canvas Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please ...
Canvas, Oil
$5,150
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 0.99 in
Large Contemporary Abstract Painting Gestural Mixed Media Mediterranean Light
By Ángel Celada
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Large contemporary abstract painting with gestural marks and layered mixed media textures inspired by Mediterranean light and atmosphere. This work by Ángel Celada develops an open ...
Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Board, Wax Crayon, Wax
$730
H 34.65 in W 34.65 in D 0.4 in
Attempt at Harmony Abstract Painting, Mixed Media, Ochre Tones, 88cm
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
"Attempt at Harmony" is an abstract painting distinguished by its texture and intertwined layers of color. Dominated by ochre tones, the piece is complemented by flashes of blue, pur...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$877
H 27.56 in W 15.36 in D 1.58 in
Painting with linen, beeswax and natural pigments, yellow turmeric and brown
Located in Carballo, ES
The painting measures 77 x 39 cm and is an old linen sack filled with polyurethane foam. The pigments include beeswax, oxide vinegar, yellow turmeric, and natural graphite. The work...
Canvas, Wax, Graphite, Pigment
$614
H 5 in W 5 in D 1.5 in
Miniature Mantelpiece Art - Original Abstract Landscape with Pink & Sage Green
Located in Preston, GB
Miniature Mantelpiece Art - Original Abstract Landscape with Pink & Sage Green by leading British Urban Artist Angela Wakefield. Part of the "mantelpiece series" of miniatures. ...
Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, ...
$34,126
H 28.5 in W 38 in D 2.5 in
Earthy Brown & Green Abstract Expressionist Art - a Unique Original Painting
Located in Preston, GB
Earthy Brown & Green Abstract Expressionist Art - a Unique Original Painting - an extremely rare early work from leading British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This colou...
Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, ...
$2,593
H 24.81 in W 24.81 in D 1.38 in
Long Meadow, Original painting, Landscape, Floral Art, Impressionist
Located in Deddington, GB
This work comprises a pair of paintings of a meadow called Long Mead, which create a diptych. Although the paintings could be available separately, they compliment one another when h...
Canvas, Oil
Trees Park Slope
Located in Buffalo, NY
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in Park Slope for over 35 years. She attended the Brooklyn Museum School at...
Canvas, Oil
$1,697
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 1.34 in
Colorful Botanical Gestural Mixed Media Abstract Painting on Wood Panel
By Ángel Celada
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This colorful botanical gestural abstract painting was created by Spanish artist Ángel Celada using acrylic, oil, virgin wax and other mixed media on wood panel. Against a warm neutr...
Oil, Acrylic, Board, Wax
$4,368
H 39.77 in W 39.77 in D 2.17 in
Carpet of Flowers II, Original painting, Abstract Landscape, Floral art, Meadow
Located in Deddington, GB
A summer meadow strewn with wild flowers, re-interpreted to create an effect like a tapestry or sampler. Mixed media but mainly oil, on canvas. Framed in a white tray frame - framed ...
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media
Sold
H 60 in W 30 in D 1 in
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
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H 30 in W 60 in D 1 in
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Sold
H 60 in W 30 in D 1 in
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Bright Lights
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Bright Lights depicts the hills of Fiesole, in Tuscany, Italy. At sundown, the glow of the hidden sun remains and shines bright orange above the horizon. Speckles of light along the ...
Copper
Untitled Impressionistic Riverside Landscape
By Alfred Zeller
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalism painting of a river landscape with a figure in a boat. Small scale painting has soft blue and green tones. Artist Biography: Alfred Zeller born in Germany but lived an...
Oil
#5251
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and ...
Canvas, Oil